 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1842 - 456 Seiten
...must come from the hand of man. Although the French revolution and Jacobin principles may have been the immediate cause of the events which have lately...weak enough to believe that a few effusions of lenity and benevolence are to soften the minds of a people which have been hardened by oppression. It will... | |
 | Earl John Russell Russell - 1866 - 426 Seiten
...affect the manners of the people. If I find a peasantry cunning, deceitful, lazy, and vindictive, 1 cannot attribute it without impiety to the hand of...centuries. Do not imagine that I am weak enough to imagine that a few effusions of lenity or benevolence are to soften or subdue the minds of a people... | |
 | 1889 - 280 Seiten
...the people. If I find a peasantry cunning, deceitful, lazy, and vindictive, I cannot attribute that, without impiety, to the hand of God ; it must come...centuries. Do not imagine that I am weak enough to imagine that a few effusions of leniency and benevolence are to soften and subdue the minds of a people... | |
 | Michael Davitt - 1890 - 490 Seiten
...the vices flowing from the wretched system of English domination. The vices of the Government affect the manners of the people. If I find a peasantry cunning,...centuries. Do not imagine that I am weak enough to imagine that a few effusions of lenity and benevolence are to soften and subdue the minds of a people... | |
 | Michael Davitt - 1890 - 490 Seiten
...the vices flowing from the wretched system of English domination. The vices of the Government affect the manners of the people. If I find a peasantry cunning,...centuries. Do not imagine that I am weak enough to imagine that a few effusions of lenity and benevolence are to soften and subdue the minds of a people... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1890 - 500 Seiten
...oppressive to the poor ; the peasantry cunning, deceitful, lazy, and vindictive. ' Although,' he said, ' the French Revolution and Jacobin principles may be...from its true origin, the oppression of centuries.' It will need a long period, and the wisest system of government that can be devised, to cure the evil.... | |
 | Mrs. Morgan John O'Connell - 1892 - 392 Seiten
...the vices flowing from the wretched system of English domination. The vices of the Government affect the manners of the people. If I find a peasantry cunning,...centuries. Do not imagine that I am weak enough to imagine that a few effusions of lenity and benevolence are to soften and subdue the minds of a people... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1892 - 520 Seiten
...oppressive to the poor ; the peasantry cunning, deceitful, lazy, and vindictive. ' Although,' he said, ' the French Revolution and Jacobin principles may be...from its true origin, the oppression of centuries.' It will need a long period, and the wisest system of government that can be devised, to cure the evil.... | |
 | John Phillip Reid - 1977 - 242 Seiten
...Governor Thomas Gage to the Earl of Dartmouth, 25 June 1775, in ibid., 408. 13 The Irish Comparison 1. "Although the French Revolution and Jacobin principles...from its true origin, the oppression of centuries." Sir Ralph Abercromby, quoted in 7 WEH Lecky, A History of England in the Eighteenth Century 439 (1891).... | |
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Although the French Revolution and Jacobin principles may be the immediate cause of the events which have lately taken place in Ireland, yet the remote and ultimate cause must be derived from its true origin — the oppression of centuries. 